Indonesia has massive permafrost glaciers that served as tourist attractions that also provided energy and clean drinking water for locals through the natural melt/excess water from these glaciers in warmer months. In the early 20th century there were over 40 permafrost glaciers in the area. In 2005 less than half of them remained and in 2020 there are only five left and the remaining glaciers are continuing to shrink in size as climate change causes the melting of glaciers all around the world.
Naturally this is an issue as nearby countries get electricity from the rushing water in the summer months and use the freshwater runoff to drink during this time as well. The loss of the glaciers has also led to a loss in revenue due to a massive drop in tourism as the situation in the area becomes more dire.
When I read the title for this article I actually got a little excited. I was hoping that if climate change started to affect industries like tourism that industry and world leaders might take notice of climate change and how detrimental it is if they saw it would also affect their profit margins.
That hope was quickly dashed however as soon as I saw the issue was happening in Indonesia. A country without the resources to save themselves from climate change. Therefore nothing will happen and no one will help. Indonesia will just lose all it’s glaciers and no one will help because no western capitalists are losing money.
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